The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-04

Icy. made of wood ashes or potash. 1t
is applied to the whole trunk of the
tree, and branches II necessary, with a
brush, nailed or tied to a stick a yard
or more in length. The most suitable
time TO make the application is between
the middle and last of May.
There are advantages and disadvan-
tages in filling an orchard. In titled
ground, trees are the most vigorous
and thrifty, and it seems to be in a
measure necessary to pillow few years
to give the young trees start. Yet
even at this period great care is requir-
ed not to cut the roots with the pillow.
But when the trees have acquired six
or eight years growth, and the roots
become extended, still greater precau.
ton is necessary, or the injury becomes
serious. 1t is not altogether the larger
roots that are so liable to be cut, for
these are often below the pillow, but the
innumerable fibres that spread in every
direction, which escape the plowman's
notice, but which are literally the
mouths that convey food 10 the plant
My practice is. when an orchard is to
be plowed, to proceed first to dig the
ground specifically with the spade
about the tree, two or three feet in
breadth, and rs many Yards lengthwise
of the furrow, SO that there shall be
no balk, and to run the pillow shallow
near the dug part. And when the
orchard is in grass, to dig circles round
the trees after harvest, both to facili-
tate growth and to prevent injury in
Winter from moles. There is no less
caution necessary in using the spade
than the pillow, to preserve the roots
entire. 1t is good practice to cut the
grass close with hoe, and then to
strew rotten chip dung-if mixed with
little lime the better-about the tree.
fear that too many calves are Just
now finding their way to the butchers,
but there are farmers who raise their
own oxen and COWS. 1t is for them to
say what the calves they are now rails
ing shall weigh three years hence. A
large number of them will have to be
fed on skim-mlk, and if they are in
tended to be kept growing it will be
with other kinds of food. And this adj
ditional food is cheap. Dat or barley
meal is the best. Cook it in clean wa
ter, and when cold, mix small portion
at first. when the calves are ten days
old, with the milk, and increase it as
they grow older and demand
more. Feed three times day. With
this treatment, If they are in good
pastures, they will grow as rapidly as
If running with their mothers. Do not
feed so that when they are done they
are ravenous for more, but give them
as much as they want and give it to
them at regular stated periods, three
times day. Flaxseed boiled to jelley,
and little once day put in their food,
is very beneficial. Any farmer can
have this raised on their own farm. but
II he depends on oil-cake meal it will be
neglected. If they are in pasture, have
a shed for them to go under in rain or
cold wind. l insist, however, on calves
having pure milk, warm from the I'D
der, for the first ten days. 1t is best
for the calves that it be MIXED and fed
to them. But 1t is better for the cows
to have the calves suck for ten days.
One of the worst backsets in calves is
to let them run with their mothers all
Summer, and then wean them in the
Fall on dry hay or unground grain.
Without special care at this period
they fall of in flesh, until they are not
as good as the calves fed carefully on
skim-milk and meal.
1t has got to be that time of day in
stock raising that good farmer is
ashamed to see about his premises
poor, lean, starved calves. Such things
give the lie to mis- professions of good
farming or indwelling Christianity. 1t
might have been done when they did
not know any better In those days
it was contended that to raise calves
and colts with hardy fare the first Win
ter made them hardy and healthy. But
that sensless theory is exploded. High
feeding is becoming more and more
popular as the question is investigated
and exnerimented. And this is espec-